April 19, 2005
Out of the 200 something films screening at the Philadelphia Film Festival, I managed to catch a grand total of...nine.
The best: Miranda July's Me And You And Everyone We Know. Also file under: top ten material. Meeting Miranda was another high point of the festival.
The craziest: Miike's Izo, which was thirty of forty minutes too long but still pretty swell.
The film with the most incredibly erotic pregnant sex scene I've ever seen (actually, the only pregnant sex scene I've ever seen): Off Beat (the director's name slips my mind at the moment).
The festival will be posting ballot results in the next day or so, so we'll see exactly what percentage of people hated Deadroom. James' theory, which seems to be upheld by the way the Q&A sessions have always gone, is that 25% of any given audience will love it, 25% will hate it, and 50% will find it "interesting." We know the people that love it really love it because they stay to discuss the film with us for at least thirty minutes after we all get kicked out of the theater so that the next screening can begin. It never fails.
I'll leave you now with a link to my, and Nick's, first appearance in a Society column. I believe James and Malcom McDowell were somewhere to our left when the picture was being taken...
Posted by David Lowery at April 19, 2005 11:57 PM